It turns out the Geforce 7900 just has this problem, it's got nothing to do with heat. So, does anyone know how to get them to replace this faulty card with another, better kind of card? Or am I just going to have to go buy a solid ATI one, which I just don't have the money for?
Just the two little fans in the case... there aren't air holes on two sides, just the side and the very back, so should I be good if I put a fan at the side and another at the back?
Also, the other problems with the first card were complete crashes of the computer with a message on start up telling me the display driver screwed up, and I'd updated the drivers. There were also many, many dead pixels, that 'copied' onto the background when I scrolled, leaving long trails. None of that's happened, though.
A year ago I got a Geforce 7900 GT/GTO. Six months later, I was sending it back due to artifacts and dead pixels that rendered games unplayable, resulting in crashes and stretched meshes, etc. Now, another six months later, it's been 'fixed' but I JUST saw an artifact playing Oblivion. It was a small little 'spike' coming off the character that shouldn't have been there. This is basically the same warning sign I was getting the first time around, but most of the other problems have yet to occur.
Something's loose and doesn't stay in the right spot in vertical position? Can't fix it unless you open the system, I think... and that'll void the warranty.
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